I recently installed Ubuntu successfully instead of Windows 7 and it was working very good. Suddenly while I was working, it restarted my computer and after I chose Ubuntu from grub it give me this ...

How do I change the configuration location of vsftpd? It is currently in a file directly off /etc and I'd like it to be in /etc/vsftpd/ so that I can include some other stuff in there and not clutter ...

I have to enter ./btsync in the terminal every time I reboot. Then I have to open a browser and enter my username and password, kind of a pita. Do have to make or edit an init file? Yes I am new to ...

I am new to Operating Systems (specifically Linux) and this is my first question here
I want to ask, can there be two process with CMD = init (as given by ps - e command).
I had two processes on my ...

Is it possible to revert an ubuntu 14.10 install to a upstart or a SysV init system.
The "loggin" and other issues with systemd has caused me issus with being unable to read the dmesg as normal and ...

There are two ways you could do this service --status-all. The other way is to do initctl list. I would like to know the difference. some services like mysql do not show up in initctl list, and some ...

I'm having some trouble with this init script.
When I run the command I'm passing to start-stop-daemon from the command line it works perfectly, even if I run it sudoed as the userid in the script, ...

I installed Ubuntu 14.10 LTS 64-bit via USB on my HP Pavilion g6 as a solo OS. It installs properly and runs great after installation. But after shutting it down and starting it again, the grub menu ...

this is a new install using an image I downloaded today called
ubuntu-14.04.1-desktop-i386. I installed it on an older HP laptop,
dual core nc6320 with 2 GB of memory.
It is really slow.
I see that ...

I tried to install Ubuntu 14.10 (or 14.04) 64-bit on an older Acer laptop (but not a totally weak one, I could run Ubuntu 14.04 on it before). It could install or boot from an USB drive (created via ...

I have setup dnsmasq on ubuntu 14.04. The dnsmasq part works fine.
However on boot, dnsmasq runs BEFORE eth0 is up. This causes dnsmasq to not respond to queries on eth0. In syslog I can see dnsmasq ...

How does one write an Upstart task that is guaranteed to run only once after each startup but is also guaranteed to run to completion before either one of at least two other jobs start running. I do ...

I would like to convert the slapd LDAP server init script to an Upstart service. However, I have very little knowledge of SysV init scripts (and the LSB(?) stuff). Specifically, I'm interested in the ...

I already know that init is the magical program that is needed for booting your computer and managing runlevels, but what is it's real purpose?
Why do we even need init in the first place? Why can't ...

I have created a bootable USB drive using SYSLINUX I am booting my x86 system correctly.
Once system boots I want to stop at console (command prompt) where I can type linux commands (cd etc) and run ...

I have a fresh installation of Ubuntu 14.04, and have not touched anything.
Cups is running, as reported by both ps and netstat.
There are /etc/init/cups.conf and /etc/init.d/cups, both of them seem ...

Are all the daemons (services) indicated by configuration-files/scripts/links in /etc/init/, /etc/init.d/ meant to start at the boot; so can I assume those directories being like start-up directory ...